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This site allows HTML content. While learning all of HTML may feel intimidating, learning how to use a very small number of the most basic HTML "tags" is very easy. This table provides examples for each tag that is enabled on this site.

For more information see W3C's HTML Specifications or use your favorite search engine to find other sites that explain HTML.

Subtitle three

Subtitle four

Subtitle five

Subtitle six

Block quoted

<blockquote>Block quoted</blockquote>

Block quoted

No help provided for tag iframe.

Most unusual characters can be directly entered without any problems.

If you do encounter problems, try using HTML character entities. A common example looks like &amp; for an ampersand & character. For a full list of entities see HTML's entities page. Some of the available characters include:

Character Description

You Type

You Get

Ampersand

&amp;

&

Greater than

&gt;

>

Less than

&lt;

<

Quotation mark

&quot;

"

Lines and paragraphs are automatically recognized. The <br /> line break, <p> paragraph and </p> close paragraph tags are inserted automatically. If paragraphs are not recognized simply add a couple blank lines.

You can insert footnotes directly into texts with [fn]This text becomes a footnote.[/fn]. This will be replaced with a running number (the footnote reference) and the text within the [fn] tags will be moved to the bottom of the page (the footnote).

You can insert footnotes directly into texts with [# ...]. This will be replaced with a running number (the footnote reference) and the text within the [# ...] tags will be moved to the bottom of the page (the footnote). This filter outputs footnotes in Textile format. You should use it together and before the Textile filter.

Line numbering can be enabled/disabled with the attribute "linenumbers". Possible values are: "off" for no line numbers, "normal" for normal line numbers and "fancy" for fancy line numbers (every nth line number highlighted). The start line number can be specified with the attribute "start", which implicitly enables normal line numbering. For fancy line numbering the interval for the highlighted line numbers can be specified with the attribute "fancy", which implicitly enables fancy line numbering.

If the source code between the tags contains a newline (e.g. immediatly after the opening tag), the highlighted source code will be displayed as a code block. Otherwise it will be displayed inline.

A title can be added to a code block with the attribute "title".

Defaults:

Default highlighting mode for generic syntax highlighting tags: when no language attribute is specified, no syntax highlighting will be done.

Default line numbering: normal line numbers.

Examples:

You type

You get

<code>foo = "bar";</code>

Inline code with the default syntax highlighting mode.

<code>foo = "bar";baz = "foz";</code>

Code block with the default syntax highlighting mode.

<code lang="php" linenumbers="normal">foo = "bar";baz = "foz";</code>

Code block with syntax highlighting for PHP source code and normal line numbers.